Coronavirus Disease 2019 Test Results After Clinical Recovery and Hospital Discharge Among Patients

Jinru Wu, BS1,2;Xinyi Liu, BS1;Jianjun Liu, BS2;et al

JAMA Netw Open.2020;3(5):e209759. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.9759

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads rapidly between cities and internationally via person-to-person transmission.1Persistence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) nucleic acid has been demonstrated in patients who have clinically recovered,2but the overall prognosis of patients with COVID-19 after meeting the criteria for hospital discharge has not been reported, to our knowledge.

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